Daamn my hair looks good today
Hey it's your
meme
MoOoOOoMM
And today's video is going to be in Polish
so you better switch those subtitles on.
It's gonna be weird, a lot of you asked me
to do a video in Polish and you probably didn't
expect it to turn out this way
but what can you do?
So if you're Polish
stay here
If you're not Polish
There are subtitles. Got it?
[switches to Polish] Hi!
It's your
meme
Never mind, you know who.
This is the first video on this channel that is about Pol...
Yeah, about Poland, sure.
This is the first video on this channel that is in Polish
Or maybe second. Or...
Probably second.
It's all because I want to share great news with you
It's me.
This one's also me.
This is a book, you guys. It's a book
A book that was written by
by however you translate "yours truly" to Polish
How did this come about? How did this
wonderful collab between me and Znak Horyzont publishing company come about?
They emailed me.
I always wanted to write a book, I had no idea
it's going to turn out like this
But I am so so grateful for this
[switches to English] OPPORTUNITY [back to Polish] dammit
I can't switch back to Polish
The book is out on the 5th of December
You can already order it
On a site called Empik
On the website you can also have a look at
what it looks like inside cause I ain't showing you nothing
And the book is dedicated to Polish women's fashion in the 20th century.
So it's moreless the same timespan
That I talked about in my
"Talked", ok I didn't say anything in it
In my video
about Polish fashion
100 years of... something.
Beauty? Poland?
Polish beauty?
["Polish Beauty" written on the cover]
The book is quite *interesting*
and you should defo buy it
because it not only describes 20th century fashion
But for each decade
I came up with two different outfits that
That show different aspects of fashion, for example
you have a poor outfit and a rich outfit
or a sporty outfit and a classy outfit
And you have two of those outfits at the beginning of each chapter
with short descriptions
And those outfits were carefully selected by ME
SO THEY MUST BE COOL
It all sounds less lame when I say it in English
It was a lot of work and a lot of fun
First of all, I had to source all the clothes
So for a couple of months
I've been travelling around the world collecting the best stuff... not.
Ok but I did a lot of searching,
rummaging family wardrobes,
checking if anyone's selling something interesting online
I had to get some stuff abroad because
it's difficult to get, for example, pre-WW2 stuff here in Poland
A couple of things I myd... blaaah
I can't talk
A couple of things I made myself
I finished it up exactly the night before the photoshoot
The night before I was still stitching up
the last dress and I had a major crisis, but I made it!
And during the whole "collecting" thing
my room was absolutely swamped with vintage clothing
It was full of bags filled with clothing,
boxes of shoes, it was a mess.
Imagine twenty different outfit sets from different eras
where for some eras you need a whole separate set of undergarments
Not to mention accessories, I had a whole bag full of hats
Transporting it to the studio was an impossible task and I have no idea how we managed
And then we had a photoshoot
The photos came out awesome and it was a lot of fun
It took us literally 1,5 days
cause one full day turned out to be not enough
I overestimated the speed with which I change my clothes and hair
It was a rollercoaster, but also a lot of fun
The two outfits that you could see on the cover are
some of the styles that will be included in the book.
Here are 1960s and art noveau - the first decade of the 20th century.
The photos were taken by Aga Rzymek
You might have seen some of her other book covers for Znak
You might have seen her work in some bookstores or online
I'm really happy with the cover, I'm super happy about the colour
You rarely see shades like this oooooon
On covers.
That's what I've noticed at least, all the covers I've seen
of books written by bloggers etc were usually white.
YES, I'm bragging about my cover's colour, DEAL WITH IT
And the whole writing process was quite new for me, even though I've written several things before
You know, even stuff I've written for college, it's pretty much the same
You have a deadline, you're trying to come up with something fast, turns out it's rubbish
Ok, just kidding, IT'S NOT RUBBISH
I was trying to keep writing two pages a day
The whole book is over 200 pages I think
Aand also I had to educate myself, because 20th century was always my area of interest
but I felt like there are certain areas of 20th century fashion
that I'm not familiar enough with
I mean, I don't feel that COMFORTABLE writing about them
as I... what is going on here
as I do writing about the other decades
So I decided I needed to educate myself more
So I read dozens of books on the topic
Blogs, documentaries
What can I say, I WAS OBSESSED
I was stuck in my cave reading about bell bottomed jeans and swirl skirts
I hope you're going to like the book, I'd love it if you guys loved it
It would be lame if you hated it so
if you hate it just don't tell me.
As I m-M-m-M-mentioned
the book is out on December 5th, but if you order it now, you could get it slightly earlier than that
There would probably be a couple of book signing meetups
But we're still working on that, I mean they will happen, but we're working out the logistics
What does one say when publishing their first ever book?
Go buy it?
Also, there's a lot of photos that I got from you guys
I mean, not literally you, but people from Facebook
I posted a couple of desperate pleas
"Yooo if you have nice 20th century photos hit me up"
and a lot of people did, in fact, hit me up.
And a lot of those pics are amazing and some of them
illustrated what I wrote about perfectly so a lot of them made it to the book
Which I think is pretty cool, because a lot of books of this type
use mostly photos from national archives, or magazines
But here we also have photos of regular people from the era, and what they were wearing
I myself love seeing old family photos, or pics taken in front of landmarks, etc
Also I want to let you know that due to the book's outing...
Book's premiere?
Book coming out?
A couple more videos in Polish will appear on this channel
We'll see how you like them
"YOUR ARTICULATION SUCKS"
And those videos will be a kind of sneak peeks of the book
And you'll also be able to see some of the clothes that...
appear in the book.
No, the clothes don't appear in the book. Photos of the clothes appear in the book.
It's all very new for me and I had no idea what happens
you know, step by step, when you publish a book
After I wrote it, the book was redacted
So it was me working together with the publishers
to make the whole text readable and
easy to read.
Then it was proofread
That's when I found out how often I use the word "WAS"
and it WAS indeed very often
Is this even in focus, or am I out of focus the whole time?
After it was proofread me and the girls took care of the images
And I'm saying "girls", because I don't think there was any guy first-handedly involved
in the making of this book.
And those images contain paintings from different eras, earlier decades especially,
Aaand photos, and pieces of magazines, and truly a lot of amazing
...
And then after dealing with the images the book
went to the printhouse and it will be waiting for you at the bookstores.
Sooo let me remind you - link in the description
Is that how you say it in Polish?
And done! We're impatiently waiting till it's out, well, I'm waiting at least
I'm not sure whether you're impatiently waiting till it's out, I hope you are
And that's all I wanted to tell you about the whole thing
Ok, that's it! See you soon, or hear you soon, in Polish...
That's not even a phrase, Karolina...
And now back to the English-speaking Karolina
[switches to English] How did you guys survive it? Did you make it till the very end
or did you click away and are not even watching this right now?
Probably the latter.
Either way, there will be a couple more videos in Polish on this channel
And if you don't like it, you can just not watch them
and just watch the ones that are in English.
And to those of you who asked - because I posted about the book already on my Instagram
and some of you asked if you can get the book when you're not living in Poland
I'm still working this out because I know there might be some of you
I'm not sure to which extent - that want to get the book
even though they don't speak Polish at all
Which is very nice, and I told my publishing company about it
and they're kinda trying to figure it out and find out the best way
for you guys to order it from abroad.
So I will let you know as soon as we figure that out
Unfortunately the website that I'm linking to in the description
I don't think it allows shipping outside Poland
so you'll have to wait just a little bit more
till we figure that out and bring you the best possible solution
So... thanks for your support
I haven't eaten breakfast today, so see you guys.